Chishui Danxia Six-Day Tour to Europe and the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece

The Peloponnese Peninsula is located in southern Greece. The island is rich in historical allusions and monuments, such as exquisite and high-quality beaches, green bays, and the pristine Maina Mountains. Looking around, there are many small and tangled pine trees and olive trees growing on the rolling Huangshan Mountain, barren land, and boundless scenery. It is hard to believe that it gave birth to a splendid civilization thousands of years ago and created miracles for mankind at that time. The contrast is impressive and one of the most attractive features of this mulberry-shaped peninsula.

The ancient Olympia Stadium was destroyed by war and wind and rain. Since the 18th century, a group of scholars have come to Olympia one after another to inspect and search for ancient Olympic ruins. After the 11th Olympic Games in 1936, the International Olympic Committee decided to excavate the Olympia ruins and restore the stadium. There are large sloped stands around the Ancient Olympia Stadium, and the entrances for athletes and referees are set on the west side. Together with the nearby martial arts field, priest's dormitory, hotel, conference hall, sacred fire altar and other rooms, it forms a huge sports complex. Currently, the Olympic Archaeological Museum is built on the site, and the museum collects unearthed cultural relics, including a large number of ancient Olympic competition equipment and ancient Greek weapons and armor.

The Museum of Ancient Olympic Games History was opened after the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and displays the history of the Nemean Games, Panathenaic Games and the Olympic Games. The Archaeological Museum of Olympia is the first provincial archaeological museum in Greece. On a hillside 500 meters north of the Olympia ruins, surrounded by woods, the Olympia Museum is one of the famous historical museums in Greece. Among the nine exhibition halls, two small halls display various stone tools and pottery from 3500 BC to 1600 BC, as well as iron tools such as spears, swords, and axes from the 9th century BC. Other galleries focus on lifelike statues unearthed in Olympia. Valuable are statues of Heracles, Zeus's wife Hera, the god of victory Panios, reliefs of the Greek gods Zeus, Poseidon and Athena fighting demons, as well as marble statues from Roman times.

Mycenae is the city site of the Aegean civilization. It is located on the Argos plain in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese Peninsula. It is the capital of the Achaeans in Homer's epic. It was built by Perseus and ruled by Agamemnon during the Trojan War. The Mycenaean civilization was a civilization in the late Bronze Age of Greece, named after Mycenae in the Peloponnese Peninsula. Around 2000 BC, the Greeks began to settle in the southern Balkans. Starting from the first half of the 16th century BC, some slave states gradually formed, and the Mycenaean civilization emerged. Guards appeared in Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos in the Peloponnese, Thebes, Orhominos, Grass and Athens in central Greece, and Jorkos in Thessalonica. City, palace and large domed tomb. Among them, Mycenae has the most magnificent buildings, and the entrance to the Acropolis is the famous Lion's Gate.

The ruins of Pidarus are located in a small valley in the Peloponnese and extend over several floors. In the 6th century BC, the cult of Asclepius, the god of medicine, first began here, and its main monuments, especially the theater, are considered one of the most perfect masterpieces of Greek architecture. This massive site was a place of prayer and healing in Greek and Roman times, with temples dedicated to the god and a hospital.

Magnificent Roman ruins, located in the foothills of the southwestern outskirts of Argos, include two ancient theaters and a huge baths. One of the larger theaters, which can accommodate 20,000 spectators, was built in the classical Greek period and was later renovated and expanded by the Romans.

In addition, there are several very distinctive churches on this peninsula, such as the Greek Orthodox Church on Ronny Street, Colokot Church, and Ipapantis in the Central Square of Kalamata Church, Anastasia Church, the largest church on the seaside, etc.